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First tagged "parody" by D. L. Morrese
Full Specification tags: adventure, epic, science fiction, humor, satire, parody, fantasy
Product Description
This ‘laugh-out-loud’ satire is a singular book. Technically scholarship fiction, it is roughly an anti-fantasy, that pokes a fair, or maybe an astray volume of cooperative fun during a critical tinge and coherence on sorcery common to many epic anticipation journey genre novels. With a desirable and truly likeable characters, witty, intelligent humor, and poetry character consistent humorous scholarship novella and epic anticipation elements, The Warden Threat is a delight. It is certain to interest to readers of these genres who might be looking for something uninformed and different. Prince Donald, a maudlin third son of a aristocrat of Westgrove, believes he might be a usually one means to strengthen his nation from an advance spearheaded by an ancient and large enchanting mill soldier famous as a Warden of Mystic Defiance. Donald, unfortunately, is woefully unprepared. His usually genuine bargain of such things comes from his reading of journey stories. When he finds an ancient corkscrew he believes might concede him to take control of a puzzling Warden, he energetically takes on a task. He dreams of saving a dominion and apropos a favourite like those in his epic journey stories. To his dismay, his query turns out to be zero like he imagined. He finds a stories in his library severely understate a complexities and hardships involved. He also shortly realizes that a genuine universe can be most some-more treacherous than illusory ones, and that a favourite is not indispensably destined to save a day.
Product Details
- Published on: 2012-03-01
- Binding: Paperback
- 340 pages
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3 of 3 people found a following examination helpful.
Very Entertaining (WMD?)
By more4math
This is a book with adequate smiles and insights to greatfully both immature adults and perceptive adults. Both my mom and we severely enjoyed following a adventures of Prince Donald as he attempted to uncover a poser behind a rumored hazard to his father's kingdom. For those of us who are rather comparison a hazard acted by a Warden of Mystic Defiance (WMD) is utterly satirical. Regardless, all can simply suffer a adventures and mishaps of a immature king perplexing to infer himself. A unequivocally interesting read. Pick adult this book. It is some-more than value a cost.
2 of 2 people found a following examination helpful.
Humorous Epic Fantasy Parody with a Science Fiction Twist
By Enter a Portal
THE WARDEN THREAT is a lightsome epic anticipation satire with a scholarship novella turn that kept me intent and entertained from page one. The tour starts with king Donald's initial incursion into a wider universe to "find out about a commoners", as systematic by his amatory though overprotective mother, though deduction by a republic of Westgrove and into a limit of adjacent republic Gotrox, home of a stoutfolk. Despite a epic anticipation trappings, a story is humorous and fun, clearly not holding itself severely as Donald struggles to conclude himself as a favourite of a area and stop an imminent fight with Gotrox.
Here are a few choice quotes from early in a book:
"Adventurers did not poop. Well, they did, though they positively never talked about it."
"The gonds, a trained ones that could be ridden anyway, could, admittedly, transport prolonged distances and lift a good understanding of weight, though these resources paled when we deliberate their substantial miss of speed, an genius approximately equal to that of overcooked asparagus, and their visit flatulence."
Characters: **** 4 Stars
Donald is idealistic, young, inexperienced, and naive, though he tries tough to do what is right and make a disproportion in his father's kingdom. He's not a reticent or ignorant immature man, he's simply been easeful from a genuine universe for distant too long. Traveling with Kwestor, a aloof and useful ranger, gives Donald a new viewpoint as he struggles to learn how to be a man. Kwestor acts as Donald's coach and advisor, notwithstanding in a rather reserved way, and tries to assistance Donald via his journey. It doesn't take prolonged in a story before they accommodate adult with Muce, a sword for sinecure that's a bit of a wag and spooky with potatoes. Muce provides a comic service during their travels, though a author does a good pursuit of reigning him in when suitable to keep a reader, and we suspect a other characters, from removing raw with his extensively anecdotes.
Plot: *** 3 Stars
Though humorous, a tract had a bent to drag during times, negligence down a read. we wanted some-more movement and danger, even stupid danger, to keep a story moving. There was a lot of walking, and a lot of staying during inns, churned in with a few shortened random fights and shenanigans. In addition, a finale was too sudden for my taste. That being said, we enjoyed a story and a twists within a plot. There are a integrate of layers of intrigue, and a scholarship novella member that I'm certain will be explored in some-more fact in a second book, that kept me concerned in a story.
Setting: **** 4 Stars
I illusory a universe as a unequivocally farming earth, and graphic a gonds like a banthas from Star Wars. It was fun to mix both a scholarship novella and anticipation tropes in a story. The Westgrovian multitude was pretty good developed, as was a informative communication with a Gotroxians. we demeanour brazen to spending some-more time in their enlightenment in a subsequent book.
Relationships: **** 4 Stars
By a finish of a story, Kwestor shined as a coach for Donald. He's a immature prince's sounding board, and notwithstanding his consistent pessimism, Kwestor seems to unequivocally caring for his charge, wanting him to attain notwithstanding his notice that no matter what he does, a king will fail. Kwestor provides clever recommendation and lays a substructure for a certain summary via a trilogy.
"When all is conspicuous and done, success or failure, how we see yourself is unequivocally all that matters."
"When we are sure, positively sure, we have finished all we could and we still can't succeed, we have to be peaceful to acknowledge better and go on. Some battles we can win, some we can't. That's only how things are."
Genre - Cross-genre Science Fiction and Epic Fantasy Parody: *** 3 Stars
I adore a good cross-genre novel, though THE WARDEN THREAT indispensable a small some-more scholarship novella to pierce it all together. we suppose this will turn some-more conspicuous in destiny installments, though this initial book examination roughly wholly as an epic anticipation satire until a final few chapters, and a anticipation was somewhat perplexed by a humorous tinge and delayed pacing. we could have used a bit some-more action, a bit some-more intrigue, or during slightest a bit some-more sorcery to pierce it serve into epic fantasy.
2 of 2 people found a following examination helpful.
We have a winner.
By Maria T. Violante
The Warden Threat, by D.L. Morrese, is like a Shirley Temple - light, sweet, fun and sparkly. It's partial of a grown-up genre, nonetheless suitable for all ages. Actually, that said, it's some-more of a Dirty Shirley, in that it's laugh-out-loud humorous (and as we substantially have no thought what I'm articulate about, let's pierce on.)
I did locate a few typos and a integrate of blank commas, though other than that, a abbreviation is refreshingly accurate and a vocabulary, well, scrumptious. we admit, we had to demeanour one or dual difference up, though during a same time, it wasn't a "too-smart-for-its-own-good" book, that we liked.
And as for a bad, that was about it. The characters are plausible and well-rounded, nonetheless somewhat cliche during times. The book avoids all of my vital pet peeves. POV is logical, solid, and simply followed. Character motivations are transparent and make sense. Descriptions are prolonged adequate to be engaging, though brief adequate to equivocate clumsiness or awkwardness. we should make a note here; they are spasmodic redundant, like a following thoroughfare -
"He approached it slowly, staring adult into a unrelenting black face and a cold black eyes that somehow seemed alive."
- though afterwards we get passages like this small tidbit that make we vivacious we picked adult your excite in a initial place:
"The portion lady began to giggle in a accessible though uncommitted approach waitresses do to make business feel appreciated and some-more inexhaustible when it comes time to leave a tip."
One of my favorite things in a work were a small "easter eggs" that would make clarity after - small pieces of a complicated universe in a Gothic setting. Take, for example, this stage of a follower training to examination for a initial time:
"Grandpa Nash constructed another book for her ... about a dog named Spot that also seemed to like to run ..."
Cute, right?
And that's only it. The whole book is filled with small gems that we only wish to quote to you, though I'm fast entrance to a indicate where it's no longer me reviewing and some-more me violating egghead copyright. So, in sequence to assistance we know a knowledge of a book, we will leave we with this note. Usually, when we am reviewing a book for my site, we prominence and make small records as we go, so that I'll have a lot to say. In this case, we was too bustling reading it; we literally examination a whole thing true by in one sitting. \
Aaaa-and it only so happens that a author has concluded to give me a giveaway duplicate of a sequel, The Warden War, in sell for another review, so ... we know ... we gotta go. I'll, um, call we .. or something.
Overall Score: 4.8 stars. (Seriously.)
The Warden Threat is accessible from Amazon here, or from Smashwords here, or we can check out a author's homepage here.
This book was reviewed for Maria Violante's examination site, [...]
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